The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Very fine jet beads are used for hat
trimming.
Copper buttons are q novelty for out.
| side garments.
The latest sun umbrellas look like so
many huge posics.
A gold cord is one of the latest designs
in jewelry for the neck.
The tournure is growing beautifully
less at the waist and larger below.
All shades of gray are in high favor,
from the dark steel grays to the most del
icate pearl tints.
Copper color and green forms one of
the prettiest combinations in millinery,
and is very stylish.
The polonaisc again comes out in all
its glory and is a favoritc mode for spring
and summer costumes.
Clocked stockings are fashionable for
children and should be in dark shades
with bright clockings in silk.
There are great many new braids in
English, Neapolitan, Milan, and Tuscan
straws, in chips and American straws.
The new applique lace looks very like
embroidery and is a very dressy trimming
for summer costumes of thin fabrics.
Surahs with pin-head dot in white
arc quite new this season. They are of
American manufacture and very wide.
Spangles are having a day of their
own and appear in all sorts of impossible
places from the shoes to the hcad-gear.
Aigrettes for the hair are invariably of
tuft of ostrich plumes in one or two
shades; sometimes even three are allow
able.
The white plush card case has On inter-
lining of sachet powder which is delicate
enough to Just suggest an odor to the
cards.
The ribs of the rich new parasols are
tipped with tortoise shell, gilt or silver,
after the old fashions in our grandmoth-
ers' times.
White dresses promise to be more gen.
orally worn than ever before, and many
of the new materials are very dainty and
beautiful.
The brocades are especially magnificent
this year; one in lovely soft shade OF
gray has an Oriental design outlined in
silver thread.
Cashmere shawls have become fashion.
able once more That is, their material,
for the articles themselves are generally
cut up for wraps.
When bonnet is given two pairs of
strings one pair is of one kind of ribbon,
the other of another, but both must be
narrow to be fashionable.
Bonnets remain very close at the sides,
the trimming being massed on top by the
milincr in various ways to suit her fancy
and the face of the wcarer.
White and cream cloth is much used
for dressy costumes for very young girls;
they are either embroidered in silver or
the new Bulgarian embroiderles.
The Pacha braidis fancy combination
of satin braid and coburg, and is shown
in two shades of color like anemone and
silver gray or pigeon green and beige.
There is a revital of the old fashion for
summer dresses, of wearing an outer
waist of transparent material, high necked
and long sleeved, over a decollete under
waist.
Alys cloth is q new black dress material,
and is the most desirable of all black fub-
RIGS. 1t has silk warp and its softness
and even texture render it suitable for the
finest wear.
Beads of every color, pale pink, amber,
blue and white, as we'll as jets, garnets,
steel, silver and gold-lincd beads that do
not tarnish, are made into passementeries
for trimming.
Leather buttons are the novelty in this
important detail of the costume. These
are an alligator skin or the smooth Russia
leather and in large and small sizes, end
are suitable for walking suits and
jackets.
Gray and pale shades Of tan are the
popular colors for undressed kid gloves,
and they must have three rows of heavy
stitching on the back, and fastened with
four rather large silvered or gilt metal
buttons.
One of the most elegant of the white
wool dress materials is albatross with
satin woven figures and polka dots in
white scattered over the surface. 1t may
be used in combination with plain al
batross or with silk.
Very long and full overshirts, slashcd
on one side and only slightly draped, are
worn by young ladies over foundation
skirt that may be gored, but must not be
too scant, as all skirt draperies are grow
ing more and more voluminous.
Bracelets are worn more than ever, and
are out in a great variety of designs.
New ones show limoge enamel picture
surrounded by pearls. A pretty c'neeit
in the way of bracelet was flexible
one of rubics, divided by glittering lines
of diamonds.
Fashionable ladies will still wear their
hair high this spring and summer. For
ordinary wear the back hair is twisted
on the top of the head with two loops
forming bow knot. For evening the
hair isdressca high the back hair waved
slightly and pulled in graceful loops on
tie head.
Very few dress makers remain faithful
to the balayeuse. The lace or cmbrold-
cred cdging was often getting unsewn,
md 1t was not an impossible thing to
rip and fall over struggling end. In
is place two narrow founces OF silk, OF
he same color as the dress, are some
times used, but more often nothing at
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